October 1974. A 26-episode anime series entitled ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'', aired on Yomiuri TV without much fanfare. It told the story of humanity's last-ditch effort to avoid extinction via the irradiation of the planet Earth by a hostile alien race. Its one hope lay in the eponymous battleship Yamato -- rebuilt into a warp-capable ship -- whose crew would then use it to journey to the far-off planet where salvation was supposed to lay.

The show would eventually become a seminal success, becoming the first anime to win the Seiun Award (the Japanese equivalent to the Hugo award), a feat that was not to be repeated until 1985, with Miyazaki's ''Valley of the Wind''. For many it marked a paradigm shift in storytelling, and influenced generations of viewers, some of whom (like Creator/HideakiAnno[[note]]Who drew the storyboards for ''2199's'' Opening Titles[[/note]]) would eventually work in the industry in turn.

For American and some Western viewers viewers, Yamato (via its edited version Starblazers) would be their GatewaySeries into anime.

Fast forward to April 2012. After years of legal dispute between the series' co-creators Nishizaki and Matsumoto, the series is given a new breath of life with a remake, the eponymous '''Space Battleship Yamato 2199'''. Featuring modern production standards and a vastly-enhanced budget, the new series seeks to retell the classic story for a brand new generation, at the same time giving even long-time fans and veterans of the franchise something to look forward to, as it's ''not'' quite the same story they grew up with.

Initially premiered as a theatrical release (with every three or four episodes edited together to make up a movie), then as a direct-to-order Blu-Ray/DVD "OVA", the series finally aired on TV for the Spring 2013 anime season.

Two movies were released for the series. While the first movie was a simple compilation of the series, the second movie, translated as ''Ark of the Stars'' (''Hoshimeguru no Hakobune''), features an all-new story, focusing on the legacy of the Akerian civilization, which first seeded the galaxy with humanoid life, and from whom the current factions in the series -- the Iscandrians, the Gamilons, and even Humanity -- are all descended.

Voyager Entertainment (the licensors for the ''Star Blazers'' adaptation of the original series) have announced plans to release the series as ''Star Blazers 2199'' in English, and screened a pilot dub of the first episode (produced by Creator/BangZoomEntertainment) at the July 2013 Anime Expo and Comic-Con San Diego. They have been releasing limited subtitle-only editions of the series, but the release of the final two volumes has been postponed indefinitely.

Basically an {{Anime}}[=/=]SpaceOpera nerd's wet, wet dream.

Now has a [[{{Characters/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199}} Character Page]] for the characters unique to the remake. Still very much a work in progress however.----

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* AdaptationDistillation: Some plot points are modified to address FridgeLogic issues in the original version. For instance, Iscandar made contact with Earth a year before the series began, and the ''Yamato'' was built based on their offer. Sasha was sent with a key piece of ImportedAlienPhlebotinum needed for the Wave Motion Engine - and the Battle of Pluto at the beginning was deliberately staged as a diversion to cover her arrival.* {{Affirmative Action Girl}}s: The remake embraces this trope to avoid the extremes of TheSmurfettePrinciple Yuki fell into. ''2199'' introduces several human and Gamilas {{Canon Foreigner}}s to its cast, as well as performing a GenderFlip on a few characters.* AlienInvasion: Not implicitly. While in the original the Gamilas were intent on turning Earth into their new homeworld, this time around it seems that Earth is being subjected to constant harrassment due to the fact that it ''resisted'' assimilation into the Gamilas empire. Some characters on the Gamilas side, like Schultz, comment on this, and say that Earth wouldn't be suffering as much had it just surrendered.* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: In full force during the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie, and a big clue that things aren't quite it seems. For example, when Mikage spots a book on a table, she sees a biography of Helen Keller. However, when the Gamilon officer Neredia takes a look at it, she instead sees a children's book about a particular Gamilon fairy tale. The same goes for the "hotel" that they're in: for the Terrans, their surroundings look like a homey hotel that could have existed during the turn of the 20th century, but since the Gamilons have a different idea of what a hotel looks like, what ''they'' see is nothing like what the Human crew sees.* AppliedPhlebotinum: The aforementioned Wave Motion technology that the Yamato's warp drive, Wave Motion gun and shields are based on.* ApocalypseHow: It seems that the standard procedure of the [[StateSec Gamilon]] [[ShoutOut Imperial]] [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Guard]] for a planetary rebellion is to visit at ''least'' a Planetary Class 2 on the offenders, via orbital bombardment, planet bombs, and old-fashioned strafing runs. The result is very much reminiscent of ''Exterminatus''.** ApocalypseWow: An orbital view of the aftermath shows ''craters the size of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo Borneo]]''.* ArtificialGravity: Care of the Wave Motion Engine.* BabiesEverAfter:[[spoiler:While Harada prepares for her marriage to Kato on the finale, she pats her belly and says something about their child.]]** [[spoiler:Implied with Starsha, who holds her belly while saying goodbye to Mamoru.]]* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Yuki, thanks to Mamoru deciding to start the Cosmo Reverser early just to revive her, after seeing his younger brother Susumu's anguish]].* TheBattlestar: Although the Yamato itself is more of a battleship that brought its (limited) fighter screen with it, only deploying its complement when Gamilas fighters are in evidence.* BattleThralls: The "Second-Class Gamilans" are the inhabitants of other worlds conquered by the Gamilas empire, many of whom serve in their military. They're closest to the SlaveMook subtrope, but some can earn privileges by great acts of service. [[spoiler:The reason Earth is being bombed into oblivion in ''2199'', instead of being conquered like so many other worlds, is as vengeance for a sneak attack made against the Gamilas ships making first contact.]]* BeachEpisode: While the Yamato is on dock in Iscandar in episode 24, [[HelloNurse Harada]] suggests the crew go for a swim in Iscandar's ocean. {{Fanservice}} ensues.* BerserkButton: Shima develops one about halfway through the series when Melda claims that humanity started the war with the Gamilas. Shima takes this as a firm insult to his father's honor [[spoiler: because his father was not only a firm believer in a friendly relationship between aliens and humans but was also the first human casualty in the war. His reaction to finding out the truth is truly [[TearJerker heartrending.]] ]]* BigCreepyCrawlies: Beemla is home to these, much to the away team's horror (and [[spoiler:Yuisha's]] [[AdmiringTheAbomination apparent glee]]). Apparently they were once domesticated, but went feral when their keepers, the bee people, died off hundreds of years before.* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Frakken and his submarine in Episode 25.]]* {{BFG}}: ** ''The'' WaveMotionGun.** Also, inn episode 25, the fighter pilots re-purpose a Cosmo Zero's cannon to fight off boarders.* BlingBlingBang: Yes, Dessler's gold-plated blaster was yet another thing retained from the original series. * BodyguardBabes: Desler has a squad of these. [[spoiler: They accompany him in boarding the ''Yamato'' in episode 25.]]* TheBridge: The iconic bridge of the battleship makes its glorious return, but this time around, it's not ''as'' cramped.* BridgeBunnies: More than the original, and what's more, other female crew filling in for Yuki whenever she's off-duty or otherwise occupied.* BrokenPedestal: In episode 23, [[spoiler:Dessler shows his true colors by abandoning the Gamilas capital when ''Yamato'' attacks and proceeds to perform a ColonyDrop on his own capital, not caring about the people he had left behind. The Gamilans still on the ground are understandably not very happy about this after the ''Yamato'' saves them.]]* CanonImmigrant: A lot of elements in 2199 are cut materials from the original Yamato series, but there are actually references for Star Blazers:** In the Star Blazers dub, some perfectly humanoid alien opponents are called "robots" to minimize the heroes' body-count, In 2199 we have the Gamiloids who are human sized MechaMooks.** Star Blazers even has one bizarre Woolseyism in which a funeral for dead crew-members is translated into a funeral for dead enemies, to show the respect that both sides have even as they try to slaughter one another. It would have worked if you wouldn't have been able to see the obviously human bodies inside the caskets. 2199 has three human-looking Zaltsians die on the Yamato, with memorable VillainousValor.** Another Woolseyism in Star Blazers kept here is the reason for Mamoru Kodai/Alex Wildstar's sacrifice in the first episode. Originally, he could not stand the shame of defeat. In ''Star Blazers'', and subsequently in ''2199'' he acts as a decoy so Okita/Avatar's ship can escape. * TheCaptain: Okita.* CerebusRetcon: ''2199'' justifies the fact that the first few Gamilas leaders that appeared had [[{{Mukokuseki}} ambiguously human skin-tones]] instead of the iconic blue skin by establishing that the Solar System occupation force was composed of "Second-Class Gamilans" who were ReassignedToAntarctica.* CheerfulChild: Shima accepted his father's belief in a future friendship with aliens with enthusiasm. His brother seems to have the same amount of earnest curiosity and exuberance as he did.* ChekhovsGun: ** The ''Yamato'''s ability to fire both lasers and regular explosive shells from its cannons plays a critical role in the penultimate episode.** In episode 25, a brief scene shows a Cosmo Zero's weapons stripped for repair. Later in the same episode one of the cannons makes another appearance...used as an improvised infantry weapon to repel boarders.* TheChessmaster: Dessler is even ''more'' so in this incarnation. Just to strengthen the impression, he's usually shown playing a Gamilas variation on the game (against an unseen opponent, implied to be Starsha).* ClosedCircle: What the Terran away party and the Gamilon soldiers are forced to experience in the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie: all of them are trapped in a hotel with no viable way out, with limited supplies, and barely simmering hostility just ''waiting'' for an excuse to break out.* ColonyDrop: [[spoiler:In an effort to destroy the Yamato, Dessler drops a city sized section of his massive space station ''on his own capital city''.]]* ContinuityReboot: ''Space Battleship Yamato 2199'' retells the story from the beginning with higher production values, a different character designer, and both AdaptationDistillation and {{Canon Foreigner}}s aplenty.* ConLang: Going beyond the original, [[http://ourstarblazers.com/vault/842/ a language]] was developed for the Gamilons; complete with alphanumeric characters, a working grammar structure, and a sizable dictionary for the production.* ConspicuousCG: Averted for the most part as the CG is saved mostly for the space battle and most scenes with alot of people in it are wonderfully hand drawn.** The chase scene in episode 16 has a rather jarring example. Yuria, who is being carried by Analyzer in a CG rendered power suit, is quite obviously also rendered in CG compared to the other crew members (running on foot) who are animated traditionally.* CoolStarship: The Yamato obviously, but many of the Gamilas ships also count.* CrushingThePopulace: This is apparently standard policy for the Gamilas. Episode 15 gives us a rather ''literal'' example when an Imperial Guard fleet [[ColonyDrop drops titanic bullet-shaped warheads]] on a rebelling world, some of which can be seen sticking out of the planet's crust and extending into the atmosphere. It's equal parts [[ApocalypseWow awe-inspiring]], [[NightmareFuel horrifying]], and [[MoralEventHorizon utterly sickening]].* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: More than one character, in fact.** Gamilas general Erk Domel is one of the most competent military commanders in anime history. When he's inflicting a CurbStompBattle on the Comet Empire, he still warns his subordinates to never underestimate the enemy, just in case(anyone who saw the second season of the original series knows he's right). When he's sent to deal with the ''Yamato'', he considers the job just a brief distraction before he can return to the Lesser Magellanic Cloud and the ''Yamato'' nothing special, but just in case he uses one of the most devastating one-ship tactics of the franchise that do not involve a WaveMotionGun, and when the ''Yamato'' (barely) survives he decides to go all out. ''Keeping a few ships in reserve'', just in case they broke through his initial ambush (they did). ** Dessler, too. [[spoiler: What with the body double and then getting away to safety in the nick of time.]]* DeflectorShields: The Wave Motion Shield makes an early appearance, drastically increasing the Yamato's defense for a limited time. In return though, the ship is unable to use the Wave Motion Gun while the shield is up.* DirtyCoward / SmugSnake: The [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Gamilon General Gremto Goer]] is a glory hound and a useless boob: he derides his underlings, tries to steal credit at every opportunity and destroys a friendly ship [[EnemyMine that had aided the Yamato]] for no other reason than their being in his line of fire, even after being told that Melda Ditz (the supreme commander's daughter) was on-board.** Field Marshall [[NorioWakamoto Herm Zoellik]] is another SmugSnake, who thought he could [[spoiler: [[OutGambitted outwit]] Dessler and assassinate him]], initiating a coup d'état.*** The interaction between the two is notable, because Zoellik makes Goer look ''reasonable'': after he seizes control of the fleets and the Yamato shows up out of nowhere, Zoellik orders his ships into dangerous collision courses to destroy it. Goer (who had earlier shot a friendly ship himself) is ''appalled'' by this. Later, after [[spoiler: Dessler reveals himself to be alive]], Goer even shoots Zoellik [[KilledMidSentence mid-rant]], visibly disgusted at his treason.** Serizawa, commander of the UN military. By his orders, [[spoiler: Earth attacked the Gamilans without provocation at first contact]], and his underlings on the ''Yamato'' try a mutiny because he doesn't believe in their possible success.* DisneyDeath: If you're a named member of the ''Yamato'''s crew, chances are very likely you won't die, even if it looks like you should've given up the ghost. [[spoiler:Ito averts this: when he gets shot on a Garmillan prison planet, he dies. Okita also averts this at the very end of the series.]]* DisproportionateRetribution: At first contact, the Humans fired on the Gamilans without provocation. They retaliated by wiping out the Earth fleets one after the other, destroying any Human settlement outside of Earth, and [[ColonyDrop hitting Earth with planetary bombs]] while doing an HostileTerraforming until Humans surrender or die out, whichever comes first.* DressingAsTheEnemy: A variant: the Yamato uses a Tsuvalke found in the abandoned Beemla Gate control facility to scout what's waiting for them at the gate terminus. They even go so far as dressing Shinohara, its pilot, with as close as an approximate to a Gamilas flight suit as they could manage, to further the illusion.** Later, Gamilas commandos from the planet Salz (those who look just like Earthlings) Board Yamato with Yamato space suits.* {{Dualvertisement}}: To promote the ''Yamato 2199'' movie, cross-promotion was done for the MMORPG ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', in the form of costumes based on the Yamato crew's uniforms, a weapon skin that resembles Kodai's pistol, an item to turn a player's MAG into Analyzer, and the ''Yamato'', itself, featured in the shopping lobby.* EarlyBirdCameo: Too many to count.** Several other Earth captains from the ''Yamato'' successive seasons and movies make early appearences; for instance, captain Yamanami from ''Be Forever Yamato'' commands the ''Kirishima'' under Okita (and keeps command after the ''Yamato'' leaves), and captain Hijikata from season 2 has an important role in Yuki's backstory.** Episode 11 shows a battle between the Gamilons and the Comet Empire.** One of the Gamilas named officers is Fraken, a Galmann general from season 3 of the original series.* DyingRace: The Jirellians. [[spoiler:While the TV airing would make you think that they'd gone extinct, what with the two remaining members dying and all, the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie reveals that a small population still exists, having survived the annihilation of their planet because they so happened to be on pilgrimage to the Shambleau.]]* EarnYourHappyEnding: After almost a year in space, and making numerous sacrifices, the ''Yamato'' finally returns to Earth with the Cosmo Reverser to save the dying Earth.* {{Egopolis}}: Dessler has a penchant to name weapons after himself, as shown by the Dessler Missile (whose warhead has a creature that absorbs any object or energy it touches, as long as it's not a freakin' sun) and the [[WaveMotionGun Dessler Cannon]].* ElaborateUndergroundBase: What Earth is reduced to survive against the Gamilon's Planet Buster missiles.* EnemyCivilWar: And a conveniently-timed one too. While discontent was apparently simmering throughout the empire for a while, it only exploded into outright violence [[spoiler:when an attempt on Dessler's life apparently succeeds]]. This prompts an ''immediate'' recall of Domel's forces, just as it was about to finish off a damaged Yamato.** The Gamilas National Army will be fighting the Royal Guard in Chapter 6.* EnemyMine: Happens with startling frequency in-series between the crew of the Yamato and isolated Gamilon crews.** A Gamilas cruiser stranded in the dimensional doldrum allies with the Yamato to escape its hold. [[ShaggyDogStory This act of cooperation however only earns them a swift end at the hands of General Goer's guns.]]** Happens ''again'' during the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie, where Kodai and his away party are trapped in a "hotel" with a group of Gamilon soldiers.* EnsignNewbie: Kodai and Shima's high positions in the ''Yamato'''s chain of command are justified in this version because the Gamilas attack in the second episode destroyed the bunker where most of the previous officer candidates were. (Kodai's brother Mamoru was the first choice as Tactical section leader.) There's some tension because of this.* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Domel is first seen inflicting a CurbStompBattle on the Comet Empire and warning one of his subordinates to play for keeps and not underestimate the enemy, playing with an horsewhip all the time.* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Gamilas General Gremto Goer]] may be a DirtyCoward and a [[SmugSnake useless boob]] ready to [[ScapeGoat blame his subordinates for defeats that were not their fault]], but would never send all his ships in dangerous collision courses while firing at each other nor he does condone treason.* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Done with the WaveMotionGun. The Yamato wasn't aiming at the Gamilas ''fleet''...they were shooting the ''planet''. Which [[EarthShatteringKaboom blew up and took most of the fleet with it]].* ExactTimeToFailure ("There are only '''X''' days left!")[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tropes F-J]]* FaceDeathWithDignity: A weird subversion: Heydom Gimleh (th Gamilon Heydrich), infamous [[StateSec Imperial Guard]] leader and [[ColonyDrop sterilizer of planets]], just giggled a little as his ship exploded.--> "So that's ''it''??"* FakingTheDead: Did you ''really'' believe that the assassination attempt on [[spoiler:Dessler]] would work?* {{Fanservice}}: In addition to having female crew members in {{Latex Space Suit}}s, the camera [[MaleGaze seems to focus on framing certain parts of the female anatomy]] on a number of occasions.* FantasticRacism: Zoellik: "Like I said, no one with a skin color other than blue can be trusted!"* FasterThanLightTravel: Warp Navigation is facilitated for the ''Yamato'' via the Wave Motion engine , and standard for the average Gamilas fleet ship via the equivalent "Gestcham Jump". The Gamilas also have access to an ancient Jirel galaxy-spanning PortalNetwork that makes warp travel much quicker and much more precise.* FatalFamilyPhoto:** [[spoiler: Commander Shulz's hologram letter from his daughter, which he views shortly before his ship takes on the ''Yamato''.]]** [[spoiler: One ''Yamato'' fighter pilot has a photo of him and his girlfriend in his cockpit. He doesn't survive the series.]]* FixedForwardFacingWeapon: the WaveMotionGun is pointed straight forward.* FloatingContinent: TropeNamer. There was one floating in Jupiter's atmosphere.* FourStarBadass: Domel. His job before being sent to deal with the ''Yamato'' was to inflict {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s on the ''Comet Empire'', and was rather good at it. With the ''Yamato''... Well, our heroes survived episode 15 only because an EnemyCivilWar got him recalled when he was literally at one barrage to victory.** Okita too (his rank technically being admiral), to the point that Domel proclaimed him a WorthyOpponent in episode 15. ''Then'' Okita decided the best way to break through Domel's fleet was to ''[[CrazyAwesome ram Domel's flagship]]''...* FreezeFrameBonus: Quite a few involving the use of SurprisinglyGoodEnglish on the Yamato's displays and signage. [[spoiler: In episode 25, freeze-frame the shot of Dessler's crippled flagship just before the explosion. [[{{NotQuiteDead}} Notice anything unusual?]]]]* FuroScene: Episode 11 shows Yuki and Akira in the Yamato's bathing facility.** Dessler.* GenderFlip: Formerly male Akira Yamamoto is now a woman.* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Yurisha, who is currently in a coma, "borrows" the use of Misaki Yuria's body, due to the latter's sensitivity to spirits.]]* GrowlingGut: Something that both Mikage and Sawamura become guilty of in the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie.* HearingVoices: Something that happens to both Berger and Mikage in the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie. [[spoiler:It's actually the mental promptings of Lerelai, a Jirellian who's observing the interactions between the Terran and Gamilon soldiers while they're trapped in the mental prison she's created.]]* HeroicSacrifice: Mamoru Kodai and his ship stayed behind to ensure that Okita escaped safely. Also, the whole Operation M is a giant sacrifice to retrieve the Iskandarian message pod.** Subverted by [[spoiler:Sanada, who risks being bombarded with lethal neutrons in order to activate a space gate.]] Fortunately, he figures out a way to survive at the last second.* HiddenDepths: Many, many characters exhibit this.** Gremto Goer is a wholly reprehensible idiot but you ''have'' to respect his unflinching loyalty to Dessler.** Sanada was Mamoru Kodai's best friend, and despite his calm, collected facade he's actually torn apart by guilt over not letting him know he was a SacrificialLion in a suicidal diversionary attack on Pluto, in which Mamoru ultimately died.** Niimi was in love with Mamoru Kodai.** Dessler is waging his wars of conquest to "bring peace to the Universe" in a misguided attempt to win Queen Starsha's affections.** The Gamilon Prime Minister, Redof Hyss, who before episode 23 seemed like nothing but a spineless, neurotic yes-man, despite being arguably the second most powerful man on Gamilas, actually ends up ''saving'' Hilde Shulz during the evacuation of the Imperial Palace, and speaks in favor of the Yamato to Queen Starsha.* HopelessWar: Before the ''Yamato'' was launched, Earth was fighting one.* HopeSpot: Yuki wakes up from her coma. Just in time for the happy ending, right? [[spoiler:Wrong. She dies soon after miraculously regaining consciousness for a few minutes and doesn't even get her final wish of seeing Kodai for one last time.]] Ultimately, of course, [[spoiler:The happy ending still happens thanks to Mamoru Kodai.]]* HostileTerraforming: ''2199'' puts more focus on this aspect of the Gamilas attacks on earth, describing the effects as "pollution" instead of explicit radiation like the original series and live-action movie. The Planet Bombs also seeded poisonous AlienKudzu that's shown penetrating the underground cities, [[spoiler:which is discovered as identical to the plant life on the Floating Continent]]. * HugeGuyTinyGirl:[[http://i.imgur.com/aXfcEfX.jpg One of the more robust pilots aboard the Yamato has a picture of him with his shorter girlfriend shipmate (cosplaying as a catgirl no less) in his cockpit.]]* HumanAliens: The Gamilons look like humans with blue skin. "Second-Class" Gamilions of planet Salz do look like humans, just like the people of Iscandar. Later it's specified Gamilians are just humans with different skin tones, genetically. Lampshaded when the crew of the Yamato are shocked that the Gamilans look so similar to them.* ImposterForgotOneDetail: How Berger eventually figures out who's been playing everyone in the ''Ark to the Stars'' movie; [[spoiler:Neredia not reacting to the fact that Mikage looks ''exactly'' like her deceased sister, as well as her not using his first name, were big warning signs.]]* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Mori Yuki's resemblance to the princesses of Iscandar becomes an actual '''plot point''' this time around, rather than an accident of Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's signature art style, leading to ''in-universe'' WildMassGuessing as to why this is so. [[spoiler:Episode 18 finally puts all speculation to rest however.]]** Played with later on, when Yuki is paraded by Dessler during Dommel's memorial service. It says a lot when ''Starsha herself'' gets confused on why her sister is even on Gamilas.** Continued even ''further'' when the Yamato delegation finally meets Starsha in person, and she mistakes Yuki ''again'', except this time for her ''other'' sister Sasha.** Happens again during the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie, but this time it's not Yuki whose similarity in appearance to another person becomes another plot point; instead, it's Mikage Kiryu's being a dead-ringer for Fomt Berger's long-deceased fiance Melia Rikke.* InvisibilityCloak: Aside from their PsychicPowers and their Warp Gate system, the Jirellians were apparently masters of this technology, to the point that they could make ''planet-sized structures'' virtually invisible to detection, via sight or otherwise. [[spoiler:The Shambleau, also known as the World of Tranquility, is one of the latter.]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Tropes K-O]]* KilledOffForReal: Individual characters aside, don't expect to see the bee people from Beemla this time around, as this apparently happened to them offscreen a few hundred years prior to the Yamato's voyage, due to an unspecified cataclysm.* [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter Kinetic Weapons Have Their Place]]: The Yamato's Type-3 ordnance are heavy battleship artillery shells. They're not as powerful as Shock Cannons and are thus used rarely, but every time to devastating effect: first to destroy attacking ships on the Jovian Floating Continent (while the Wave Motion Engine was shut down for repairs), then to bomb Shultz's Pluto base to ashes from half a dwarf planet away, and finally to [[spoiler: blast Dessler's giant ship to little pieces in a subspace corridor where normal beam weapons didn't work. While Dessler was [[SuckingInLines warming up]] his {{BFG}}, the Yamato opened up with the Type-3's and tore his ship to shreds]]. Needless to say the guy was ''outraged'' at such "barbaric" weapons.* LargeHam: Go on, guess ''[[NorioWakamoto whose character]]'' literally chews the scenery when he finally gets his time in the limelight.* LatexSpaceSuit: Both played straight and averted. The normal uniforms used by the crew play it straight, however they do have proper, non-form fitting suits for longer moments of EVA.** Played with with field medic Makoto Harada, whose [[GagBoobs bountiful chest]] is quite obvious even when she's wearing what would be a non-form fitting suit on most other female crew members.* LateToTheTragedy: Captain Yamanami and Commander Hijikata's retrieval of the Space Cavalry Division at the start of the ''Ark of the Stars Movie'', after their ship saw the Yamato off on its journey. By that point, the regiment was reduced to a handful of survivors, and what's worse, had they arrived even five minutes earlier its commanding officer Colonel Kiryu might have survived.* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are 36 named characters for Earth alone. The Gamilas have a dozen at least.* LotusEaterMachine: The Jirellians apparently are really ''really'' fond of using this tactic. ** During the series, the Gamilans attempt to neutralize the crew of the Yamato this way in episode 14, through Jirelian agent Mirenel. It ends with a background applause, and Mirenel very dead.** Happens ''again'' during the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie. [[spoiler:This time it's used as a means for the few remaining Jirelian refugees living on the Shambleau to protect themselves, and the illusion is cast on the crew of the Yamato, as well as the Gamilons and Comet Empire forces fighting in the area the Shambleau was passing through.]]* LoveTriangle: One between Kodai, Yuki, and Akira, or at least it's what ''everyone else in the crew'' assumes is going on. The pilot corps is particularly aware of Akira's simmering frustration to Kodai's seeming obliviousness.* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: [[{{TheBigBad}} Dessler.]] His penultimate plan to unite Iscandar and Gammilas involves destroying his capital city.]] [[{{SarcasmMode}} Smooth,]] [[spoiler: Dessler,]] [[{{SarcasmMode}} smooth.]] * MagicFromTechnology: When dealing with Iscandarian technology, the commonly-accepted laws of physics pretty much go out the window. Sanada even quotes ArthurCClarke on the matter.* MexicanStandoff: Kodai and Berger get into one during the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie. And complete with GunpointBanter too!* TheMutiny: Happens to the Yamato, as the proponents of the Izumo Plan take advantage of the perceived weakness of the ship's leadership (they timed it to coincide with Captain Okita's collapse) to take over.* MythologyGag: All over the place for old fans to spot. * MyCountryRightOrWrong: Many of the more honorable Gamilans like Domel and Frakken don't quite agree with how Dessler is running things, but serve under him anyways because that is their duty.* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Dessler]] dies ''three times'' over the course of the show. The first time [[spoiler:it turns out to be a BodyDouble]]. The second time [[spoiler:the ship he's on successfully jumps before the facility around it explodes]]. Even the ''third'' death, involving [[spoiler:being onboard a spaceship as it tears itself apart with uncontrolled WaveMotionGun energies ''while inside jump space'']] would have to be avoided if they want to adapt the second season of the original series. [[spoiler: In fact, the answer to whether he dies or not is visible in freeze-frame. A moment before Dessler's ship blows up, you'll see the bridge structure lift off and fly up while everything below it explodes. ''Dessler got away the third time too!'' Here's to that sequel!]]** Though it wouldn't be the [[SpaceBattleshipYamato first time]] [[spoiler:Dessler]] has [[JokerImmunity got away]] with that.** For the heroes we have [[spoiler:Mamoru Kodai]] who bravely sacrifices himself early on yet somehow keeps popping up in the story long after his "death".* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The Gamilas fleet initially arrives in peace. However, the UN, fearing that it might be an invasion force, orders their fleet to open fire first. The Gamilas retaliate by dropping planet buster bombs on Earth.]] * NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:The attempt on Dessler's life forces Gamilas to recall all of its military forces, including Domel's fleet, which is just about to destroy the Yamato.]]* OldSchoolDogFight: A fair bit of this between Earth and Gamilas fighters. For the most part, the Earth fighters tend to rely on this to conserve their guided munitions.* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: "There are only X days until humanity is extinct."* OhCrap: The reaction of the Science crew when the Cosmo Reverser system starts up early, with the Yamato ''nowhere near Earth yet''.* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Since the first days of the voyage, rumors circulated on the Yamato that a ghostly presence is aboard, usually centered around the Automated Navigation System responsible for guiding the ship to Iscandar. Most of the crew dismiss this as superstitious nonsense. In truth, [[spoiler: the Automated Navigation chamber contained a cryo-pod with the comatose Yurisha, Queen Starsha's sister, whose mind provided the Yamato's long-range guidance. The ghost was likely a projection of her consciousness through PsychicPowers, and it was even able to seize control of Yuria Misaki several times]].** Later on, after [[spoiler: picking up the Cosmo Reverser on Iscandar, a ''new'' ghostly presence took the place of the now-revived Yurisha: Mamoru Kodai. Having been captured after his seeming death the prisoner transport he was on crashed on Iscandar, where he met Queen Starsha. He died before the Yamato's arrival, and Starsha [[BrainUploading saved his consciousness]] in order to help power the Cosmo Reverser for the restoration of Earth]].[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tropes P-T]]* [[EmpireWithADarkSecret Planet With A Dark Secret]]: If you thought Gamilias was a home to such a ProudWarriorRace as seen in the franchise, [[spoiler: Starsha revealed in episode 24 that the Iscandarians were once such warriors in the past. They invented the WaveMotionGun for the purpose of conquest and establishing TheEmpire, and ended up going too far (a flashback scene showed several Wave Motion Gun beams shattering a planet, all fired by Iscandarian forces), hence the near extinction of their people. Starsha feared that the Earthlings were going down the same path when the crew of the Yamato made use of the weapon on their way to Iscandar, hence her initial reluctance to give them the Cosmo Reverser.]]* PlanetSpaceship: [[spoiler:This is what the ''Shambleau'' is -- a planet-sized artifact ship created by the Akerians. The remaining Jirellians make it their home, as they were apparently there on a pilgrimage when their own homeworld was destroyed.]]* PortalNetwork: And one that predates the Gamilon empire at that. The empire of course had co-opted its use, and the crew of the Yamato take over and make use of an abandoned node in episodes 17-18.* [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Powered By The Memories Of A Dead Man]]: [[spoiler:The Cosmo Reverse System that the Yamato is after can use the power of the Wave Motion Engine to [[RealityWarper alter things]] back to a previous state; the intention is to use it to reverse the damage done to the Earth. The information of said previous state needs to come from something native to the planet however. Queen Starsha provided Mamoru Kodai's [[BrainUploading stored]] [[OurGhostsAreDifferent consciousness]] for the job, but Mamoru set off the device prematurely to revive Yuki Mori after she was killed in action. Admiral Okita dies shortly afterwards however, and it's implied that he took Mamoru's place at the heart of the device, powering the restoration of Earth.]]* PowerOfTrust: Turns out that the thing needed to get the [[spoiler:Shambleau started again]] was this -- for the descendants of the Akerian people to put aside their differences and join hands together to work towards a greater goal. Literally. Given that said descendants happen to be Terrans, Gamilons, and Jirellians, and the former two were until recently embroiled in a galaxy-wide ''war'', this was an amazing feat.* {{Precursors}}: The ''Ark of the Stars'' movie introduces [[SpellMyNameWithAnS the Akerians/Aquarians/Archelias]], from whom all humanoid races (which means the Terrans, Gamilons, Jirellians, Zalts etc.) are descended.* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: As shown by the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie, the soldiers of Gatlantis are re-imagined to be like this. While in-series we've heard only heard about their "barbarism" second-hand from Gamilons, in the movie this aspect is brought to the fore. Think the Klingons from StarTrek, but with green skin rather than forehead ridges, and it's pretty close.* PsychicPowers: The Gamilas use Mirenel Linke's abilities to put the Yamato crew in a [[LotusEaterMachine trance]] and sabotage the ship from within. These powers [[spoiler: end up getting Celestella killed, as she releases a sympathetic wave the moment she sees Dessler (who she thought dead), which startles him, and he shoots her.]]** [[spoiler: Yurisha also has some of these, at the very least she can [[OurGhostsAreDifferent project herself]] outside her comatose body, take control of more "sensitive" individuals, and sense people's presences at a distance.]]* PunchClockVillain: Many of the Gamilas characters are portrayed as perfectly reasonable and sympathetic characters, who only try to hunt down the Yamato because it's their job to. You'll even feel bad when some of them inevitably get killed off.* PuttingOnTheReich: The current Gamilas Empire incarnation, on a level that surprised even long-time fans of the franchise, particularly with the addition of the [[StateSec blue-shipped Imperial Guard]].* RecoilBoost: How the Yamato escapes the enemy fleet at Balun in episode 18, using the Wave Motion Gun's recoil to boost through the gate to the Large Magellenic Cloud.* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Throughout the series, there are a number of subtle hints that Yuki might be Yurisha. However, it is later revealed that her resemblance to Yurisha is merely a coincidence, and the real Yurisha is currently sealed in the Yamato's auto-navigation system.]]** It is deliberately employed by General Ryu Hijikata to confuse the Gamilians and Serizawa.* RevengeBeforeReason: While Akira has legitimate beef with the Gamilas, her desperate need to get revenge for her brother's death leads her to instigate a dogfight with Melda Ditz, ''despite the fact that the Yamato was about to release their guest''. Although Akira gets off with a few days in the brig, her little duel cost the Yamato one of its fighter craft.* RoboSpeak: Analyzer of course.* RockBeatsLaser: [[spoiler:In the final battle, which takes place in hyperspace, both the ''Yamato'' and Dessler's flagship have trouble harming each other because lasers are ineffective in hyperspace. However, regular cannon shells work just fine...]]* RubberForeheadAliens: Every alien race in the series has a body similar to humans, but a different skin color.** The extinct Beemelians seem to be an exception, however, as they were probably BeePeople.* SaharanShipwreck: What the audience first sees of the ''Yamato'' itself.* ShoutOut:** The number on Okita's ship Kirishima in episode 1 is [[{{Anime/Interstella5555}} 555]]. The station where Susumu Kodai and Daisuke Shima stayed on Mars when they waited for the Iskandar ship is built in the former [[{{Anime/CaptainHarlock}} Arcadia]] station.** Heydom Gymleh's [[ColonyDrop planet-bombing]] Gamilon StateSec is called [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} The Imperial Guard]] and we doubt it's a coincidence.** There is a Planet Stalag17 in episode 21.** During the first battle in the first episode, Admiral Okita responds to the Gamilans demand for surrender by saying "NUTS!" In much the same way Brigadier General Anthony [=McAuliffe=] replied to the German's demand for the U.S. 101st Airborne Division to surrender at the Battle Of Bastogne, later immortalized in ''BandOfBrothers''. ** Late in the show, Yuki sits at her station and the monitor displays the message from the end of ''Anime/{{Gunbuster}}''.[[note]][[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapaneseStockPhrases "Okaeri" (Welcome home)]], with the last character mirrored left-to-right.[[/note]] [[FreezeFrameBonus The final character then promptly flips to its proper orientation]].* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Many of the Japanese Cosmo Forces brass are named after Shinsengumi captains.* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:It's fairly obvious that Starsha is pregnant with Mamoru's child by the end of episode 24.]]* SpaceClothes: Played with — Earth's space navy generally wears traditional [[SpaceIsAnOcean naval uniforms]], with the iconic {{Latex Space Suit}}s being specifically developed and assigned for ''Yamato'' use only.* SpaceElves: Aesthetically, the Jirel species are these. They're the builders of the [[PortalNetwork Warp Gate network]] that Gamilas uses to quickly traverse their holdings. They're ''also'' mostly extinct; Celestella and Linke are the [[LastOfHisKind last ones left]], as far as they know. [[spoiler:Turns out they were wrong; while Mirenel dies in Episode 14, and Celestella dies close to the series' end, the second movie ''Ark of the Stars'' reveals that a small population of Jirelians continue to survive on the ''Shambleau'', where the majority of the second movie is set]]. * SpaceFighter: Both sides have these. For the Yamato, it has a pair of Type-52 Cosmo Zeroes and a squadron of Type-99 Cosmo Falcons (the Zero needs no introduction, and the Falcon (Hayabusa) was the Imperial Japanese Army's equivalent of the Zero); for the Gamilas fleet, it's the [=DDG110=] Zedora-II and the [=DWG262=] Tsvuelke. (Their names are shout-outs to the World War II era Messerschmitt Bf-110 heavy fighter and the legendary Messerchmitt Me-262, the world's first jet fighter to see combat.)** Crazily enough, the Gamilon space fighters include torpedo bombers and even a somewhat recognizable dive bomber, appropriately called the dmb87 as a ShoutOut to the infamous ''Junkers Ju-87 Stuka''.* SpaceIsAnOcean / SpaceSailing: Refurbished wet navy ships, complete with anchors and anti-fouling paint below the "waterline". Though it's a bit jarring to see a ship in the first episode[[note]]Kodai Mamoru's vessel, which was NOT a refitted wet-navy ship[[/note]] "sinking" into the distance well before the obligatory explosion.** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact the ships are expected to land in and operate on water as well as space, and the fact that the titular ship ''is'' a wet-navy ship in the first place.** Cosmo Force personnel use naval terminology constantly -- orbitals are the "shores" of a planet, further out are the "seas" around it, and so forth.* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A common problem with the names of the Gamilas segment of the cast. Not helped by the official romanizations used, many of which read nothing like how the names are supposed to sound, which is to say vaguely Germanic.* StandardStarshipScuffle: Unavoidable, given the SpaceIsAnOcean setting. The battle near Pluto in the very first episode especially stands out as an example.* StandardSciFiFleet: space fighters, Destroyers, Carriers, Battleships, [[spoiler: and even a space submarine that "dives" into a dimensional rift]].* StealthInSpace: Wolf Frakken's space-submarine can achieve this by hiding in subspace.* TelepathicSpacemen: The Jirel and the Iscandarias.* ThemeNaming: The names of Gamilas' flagships tend to include their admiral's name, as shown by the ''Domelaze III'' (Domel's flagship), the ''Goergametsch'' (Goer's) and the ''Zoelguut'' (Zoellik's). {{Subverted}} by Dessler's flagships, both named ''Deusura''.* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Done accidentally when they test fire the Wave Motion Gun on a Gamilon base situated on the floating continent base in Jupiter. However, instead of destroying the base, the beam just straight up destroys the entire continent. Oh, and did we mention that the continent was ''roughly the size of Australia?''** Later tried on purpose and {{Subverted}} when the ''Yamato'' blew up the planet Balan with the Wave Motion Gun. Why is subverted? For three reasons: one, it was the only way to prevent the enemy fleet from giving chase through the portal, and would cripple the network; two, given it was ''ten thousand ships'' and ''three thousand survived'', there wasn't enough firepower involved; three, ''Balan survived''.** [[StateSec Heydom Gimleh]]'s solution to putting down a planetary rebellion is to simply [[ColonyDrop drop planet buster bombs on them]] and orbitally bombard whatever is left.** Gamilas has a whole class of warships designed specifically for this: the ''[[http://starblazers.com/mecha/gamirasu-sn07/ Zoelguut]]''-class battleship, the largest ship in space with enough huge cannons to outgun both Dessler's flagship and the ''Yamato'' (as long as we don't include Wave Motion Guns in the count).*** And, in a contest of who has the largest dick, Dessler's second flagship comes with a [[spoiler: Wave Motion Gun, rechristened the [[{{Egopolis}} Dessler Cannon]], used to fire at ''a single ship'']]. Whoa!* TrapDoor: In a hilarious holdover from the original, apparently Dessler's command throne still retains the function to open one up, as one unlucky Gamilon general, Dotem Gelhen, soon found out.* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Yuki can barely remember anything past a year ago. [[spoiler:This was because she was injured in the same terror attack that put Yurisha in a coma]].* {{Turncoat}}: [[spoiler:Yabu, one of the engineering crew on the ''Yamato'', is shown to have joined the crew of Frakken's space-submarine in the penultimate episode.]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Tropes U-Z]]* UNIsASuperpower: ''2199'' makes conspicuous use of the United Nations' emblem as a military banner, both on bases and in the ''Yamato'' itself. * VichyEarth: Zalts is basically one, and Shultz asks himself why Earth can't became one.* VillainousValor / WorthyOpponent: This trope is ''central'' to the whole series, along with the notion that peace is ultimately attainable even if total war seems like the only option. A ''lot'' of them on the aliens' side, and many acknowledge the ''Yamato'' as a WorthyOpponent themselves:** The Zaltsian crew and captain of Gamilon starship ''EX-178'', which cooperated with the Yamato to escape another dimension, even though they had the opportunity to escape and leave the humans to die. They even go so far as to execute a Gamilon intelligence officer on board for trying to subvert this temporary alliance. They get blown out of the sky by Goer for their trouble.** General Domel is the Gamilas UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel, a brilliant tactician who has a winning strategy ''every time''. [[TheStarscream Zoellik]] frames him for [[spoiler: Dessler's assassination]].** Colonel Vuelke Schultz, the commander of the Pluto base, and his underlings Gelf Gantz and Vuol Jaretora: second-class Gamilas citizens from the planet Zalts just trying to prove their loyalty and follow orders, hoping their families will become first-class citizens. They're visibly outclassed and outgunned by the Yamato yet still come up with solid, adaptable strategies (having learned from Domel himself). Schultz even has an [[{{Moe}} adorable]] daughter back on Gamilon, and is trying to secure a safe future for her as a first-class citizen. Jaretora performs a HeroicSacrifice to allow him to escape Pluto. In the end, their valor prompts Dessler to [[PetTheDog make their families honorary citizens]].** Mirenel plays an applause when Kodai breaks out of the LotusEaterMachine sequence.** The ''Yamato'' is proclaimed this by the Gamilas on multiple occasions. First by Shultz during the battle of Pluto, right before launching the attack that should have annihilated the ''Yamato'' (and ''would'' have annihilated them had they not figured out what he was doing at the last moment). Second it's by ''Deslar'' himself, who, after witnessing the ''Yamato'' surviving a trap he had prepared himself, notes down the name of the ship and decides to sick [[FourStarBadass Domel]] on them. Then we have the commander of a ship in an EnemyMine situation that, before attempting to engage the ''Yamato'' in a duel, tells the crew it would be an honour to fight them. Most recently, Domel admitted their valor when he witnessed the ''Yamato'' trying to escape his ambush by breaking through the center of his fleet, and his admiration only increased when they nearly succeeded by ''[[CrazyAwesome ramming his own flagship and scraping the hull, forcing him away from their route]]''.** The Zaltian commandos. ** Wolf Frakken seems to openly enjoy battling the ''Yamato'' because it proves a worthy challenge to him. He's also not a big fan Dessler's policies but is loyal anyways. He remains loyal to the Gamilan government after [[spoiler:Dessler's disgrace and removal from office]] and hunts down officers who refuse to recognize the new government. He even assists the ''Yamato'' at one point by killing [[spoiler:Goer]], who was pursuing them.* VisualPun: Doubles as a ShoutOut to boot. In the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie, Kodai and his away party discover the (original, apparently) Yamato beached in the middle of a rain forest. When they go inside hover, they instead discover... a hotel? The Hotel Yamato, if Mikage is to be believed.* WagonTrainToTheStars: Part and parcel for the series.* WaveMotionGun: The TropeNamer.** Gamilas too is working on the very same weapon. In the meantime, many Gamilas ships have weapons that follow the same general idea (big gun with ludicrous firepower that does an helluva damage), but it's less powerful, and before the ''Yamato'' Earth ships are implied having used a predecessor of the shock cannon (the turreted weapons of the ''Yamato'') in a similar way.** The ''Ark of the Stars'' movie re-introduces a series staple used by the Comet Empire: the Firestorm Direct Strike Cannon (aka the Magna Flame Gun in ''StarBlazers''). Which warps a red-hot stream of ''fire'' close to its target.* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: How the war started: [[spoiler: at first contact, before the Humans even knew the name of the Gamilans, commander Serizawa had the Earth fleet open fire, even removing Okita from command for opposing the order. The Gamilans, who ''had'' come in peace, took it as leave to [[DisproportionateRetribution annihilate the Earth fleets and bomb Earth until the Humans either died out or surrendered, whichever came first]].]]* WhatTheHellHero: After finding out that Iskandar and Gamilas are in the same place, Akira angrily calls out Yurisha for not telling them in advance.* YearInsideHourOutside: As Mikage soon finds out at the end of the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie, she and the rest of the away team have been trapped in the illusion for more than a week, and yet barely a day had passed as far as the Yamato was concerned.* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: One senior officer's response to a crewman asking how the OMCS (food synthesizer) works. This knowledge may explain why the officer eats very little. Or it might be simply because the said officer is [[HollywoodCyborg Sanada]].* {{Zeerust}}: Earth Fighters seen, such as the Cosmo Falcon, have a mix of high tech displays inside a UsefulNotes/ColdWar fighter cockpit.[[/folder]]----